Anhonee 1973 (*ing Sanjeev Kumar, Leena Chandavarkar)
Jul 20, 2015 2:29:47 GMT
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Post by odadune on Jul 20, 2015 2:29:47 GMT
A young psychiatrist (Leena) and her stepmother (Kamini Kaushal) are traveling by train, when their cabin is invaded by an escaped mental patient (Sanjeev Kumar). Even though he has a knife, Leena manages to talk him down off the ledge and takes him to her clinic to treat him. We then get a funny-awkward beauty and the beast type romance between the two, helped along by him rescuing her from Mysterious People Who Are Trying To Kill Her, and somewhat marred by the the couple of scenes where he grabs other women (never her) by the throat, although we eventually (in the second half) learn things about him that imply he probably would not have hurt them for real. And yes, it's totally unprofessional of her to fall for her patient, but it's pretty much impossible to take Leena-who looks and sounds like a cross between present-day Katrina Kaif and a somewhat more grownup version of Alia Bhatt-remotely seriously as a psychiatrist, and her colleagues are no better: they all show up at a staff meeting wearing stethoscopes like they're trying to prove they're members of some secret freemasonic order of doctors, and one of them goes out drinking and playing cards at a dive run by Bindu in between attempting to treat a kooky comic-relief patient played by Asrani. (He and Bindu turn out to be relevant to the plot later on.)
Just when the film has you mostly reconciled to the romance between Leena and sort-of cured Sanjeev, it hits you with a couple of major curveballs about the death of Leena's father and about what Sanjeev was up to before Leena met him, and from there the film takes a sudden turn from a sort of tongue in cheek gothic romance to a hard-boiled detective story with Bollywood trimmings, and just something about the combination of those two genres I enjoy so much with Sanjeev/Leena, an unlikely but very charming pair who are one of my favorites, really pleases me in spite of the fact that I have never seen this with subtitles, and first saw it when I knew even less Hindi than I do now. The big brawl at the climax, with every single living character in the story going toe to toe, including Shetty (director Rohit Shetty's dad), Sanjeev, Kamini, Leena, Asrani, and Bindu (who makes a dramatic entrance dressed as a cowgirl) is just icing on the cake.
There are two versions of this on youtube; I'm unclear on whether either is legit but the Goldmines Telefilms version seems to be better quality, and the film is otherwise only available on vcd. If you aren't scared by the lack of subtitles, and like the sound of what I've described above, it might be worth a look. The songs are also pretty good; Kangna Ranaut's Queen borrowed this gem:
And I am also very fond of this little number, sung in part by Leena's future real life husband, Kishore Kumar:
Just when the film has you mostly reconciled to the romance between Leena and sort-of cured Sanjeev, it hits you with a couple of major curveballs about the death of Leena's father and about what Sanjeev was up to before Leena met him, and from there the film takes a sudden turn from a sort of tongue in cheek gothic romance to a hard-boiled detective story with Bollywood trimmings, and just something about the combination of those two genres I enjoy so much with Sanjeev/Leena, an unlikely but very charming pair who are one of my favorites, really pleases me in spite of the fact that I have never seen this with subtitles, and first saw it when I knew even less Hindi than I do now. The big brawl at the climax, with every single living character in the story going toe to toe, including Shetty (director Rohit Shetty's dad), Sanjeev, Kamini, Leena, Asrani, and Bindu (who makes a dramatic entrance dressed as a cowgirl) is just icing on the cake.
There are two versions of this on youtube; I'm unclear on whether either is legit but the Goldmines Telefilms version seems to be better quality, and the film is otherwise only available on vcd. If you aren't scared by the lack of subtitles, and like the sound of what I've described above, it might be worth a look. The songs are also pretty good; Kangna Ranaut's Queen borrowed this gem:
And I am also very fond of this little number, sung in part by Leena's future real life husband, Kishore Kumar: